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Pushed off, 1954–57
In 1953 there were about six thousand Vietnamese in our highlands outside Da Lat. By the end of 1956 more than 140,000 Vietnamese refugees from the north had been settled on our land. By 1963 Vietnamese were more than 40 percent of the people of the seven highland provinces. This is how it was done: the French left, the Republic of Vietnam aboli...
Y Bham Enuol: the early years and BAJARAKA
He was born in 1913 in the village beside the mission at Ban Me Thuot, went through three schools the French and the missionaries had built, and became an agricultural official in the provinces he would later petition about. In 1958 he put his name to letters asking President Diem, three foreign embassies and the United Nations to look at what w...
Y Bham Enuol: the prison years, 1958 to 1964
He was arrested in the autumn of 1958 for writing letters, and he was not free again until February 1964. The sources disagree about the sentence, the prisons and even the number of years — four, five, six or seven, depending on who is counting. What they agree on is that the Republic of Vietnam jailed the man who had asked it for schools, kept...
A country of our own, 1946
Between 1946 and 1955 our country existed on paper. A French ordinance of May 27, 1946 took five highland provinces out of Annam and made them a territory of their own, with its seat at Buon Ma Thuot. In 1950 Bảo Đại took the territory as his personal Crown Domain, and in 1951 he signed a special statute for it: our chiefs and our courts kept, o...
The Franco-Rhade school and the Collège Sabatier
Thirty boys from the villages around Buon Ma Thuot were put into a French school in 1915. Attendance was not voluntary; within a few years some of them walked home, and the paramount chief who defended them was accused of inciting disobedience. Out of that school came a written Rhade language, a class of clerks and teachers, and, a generation la...
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